Well....there's lots of "horseshoe" answers here (close....but no
"ringers").
You are experiencing the good old "Out Of Memory" bug in Win95, 98, 98SE
and ME.....appears only when you have more than 512 mb of RAM
installed....and the problem is made worse if you have your AGP aperture
set at more than 64 MB mapped as well (which many of us do running
Nvidia cards......not necessary running 3dfx video cards since they
don't use the AGP port anyway).
This is not an issue of Windows "recognizing" a certain amount of
RAM...or a limit of RAM. It will recognize all you give it up to 800 MB
(or at least that's the Vcache limit). There's an area of the Vcache
called the "system arena" and Windows needs to reserve address space
there in order to boot....and to run certain substrate applications.
When you have more than 512 MB of RAM installed, these specific memory
addresses can be taken up already.....and Windows doesn't look for
another "free" address space. It simply thinks there's no available RAM
memory in the system arena. Hence, you keep getting these "Out of
Memory" error messages....or any program attempting to access the system
arena and "borrow RAM memory" from Windows addresses.....doesn't
function properly.
In GPL......when you attempt to go onto the race track (from the track
selection UI screen), you will get a message something like, "Can't
initialize the replay system." I never tried seeing what N4
did......but apparently it will attempt to grab address space
somewhere....and it doesn't work properly according to your problem
description.
Herald's "workaround fix" listed above is correct. If you need
additional information you can query the MSKB for a complete description
of the problem and various "workarounds" that will fix this issue.
I don't really know what you will do or need all that RAM for. It won't
make your system run faster....it would let you keep more graphic files
open while running other programs. However, I have had as many as 15
GPL track texture files open in PSP at the same time.....minimized to
the task bar....and could still run GPL with full field AI
cars......using 512 MB of system RAM. The memory speed and (FSB)
determine how fast your computer runs....not the "size" of the RAM it
has (beyond 128 MB......which is considered minimum RAM these days for
running Win98 and up).
Regards,
Tom
